Thursday, July 13, 2006
Youth / Sustainable Business Funding Deadline July 19
Environmental Entrepreneurship Program Encourages Social Enterprise
WEB reference, July 2006 (SSHRA) - The Environmental Entrepreneurship Program is the Environmental Youth Alliance’s (EYA) new fabulous and federally funded opportunity for young people to get paid support to start up their own green business...to gain skills of self-employment and sustainability! To launch their own business, the aspiring entrepreneur will receive 10 months of skills enhancement, mentorship, contacts and support from EYA in partnership with local business and consultants. For more information visit http://www.selfhelpresource.bc.ca/Community%20Announcements/GreenbizJuly19.JPG.
Environmental Entrepreneurship Program Encourages Social Enterprise
WEB reference, July 2006 (SSHRA) - The Environmental Entrepreneurship Program is the Environmental Youth Alliance’s (EYA) new fabulous and federally funded opportunity for young people to get paid support to start up their own green business...to gain skills of self-employment and sustainability! To launch their own business, the aspiring entrepreneur will receive 10 months of skills enhancement, mentorship, contacts and support from EYA in partnership with local business and consultants. For more information visit http://www.selfhelpresource.bc.ca/Community%20Announcements/GreenbizJuly19.JPG.
Social Enterprise and Innovation
Exciting New DVD for Social Entrepreneurs
WEBSITE, May 16, 2006 (ASHOKA Innovators for the Public) - Social entrepreneurs are transforming the lives of millions. In this exciting 16-program DVD series, some of the world’s greatest social entrepreneurs share their inspiring stories and strategies – in their own words. They explain how they have built global organizations and movements with unstoppable momentum. They demonstrate how a new kind of commerce can expand the frontiers of companies and citizen organizations, while empowering poor people to access the opportunities of the global market. http://www.dvd.ashoka.org/
Exciting New DVD for Social Entrepreneurs
WEBSITE, May 16, 2006 (ASHOKA Innovators for the Public) - Social entrepreneurs are transforming the lives of millions. In this exciting 16-program DVD series, some of the world’s greatest social entrepreneurs share their inspiring stories and strategies – in their own words. They explain how they have built global organizations and movements with unstoppable momentum. They demonstrate how a new kind of commerce can expand the frontiers of companies and citizen organizations, while empowering poor people to access the opportunities of the global market. http://www.dvd.ashoka.org/
EcoDesign in the Backyard
Eco-friendly Garden Designs
ELIST Reference, May 16, 2006 (BBC News) – Home grown eco-friendly garden design winners combine relaxing green space for family and friends, uses natural resources in a sustainable way and encourages a wide range of plants and wildlife. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4225517.stm
Eco-friendly Garden Designs
ELIST Reference, May 16, 2006 (BBC News) – Home grown eco-friendly garden design winners combine relaxing green space for family and friends, uses natural resources in a sustainable way and encourages a wide range of plants and wildlife. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4225517.stm
Unregistered and Cooperatives, Alliances, Consortiums
Starting a Co-op Links and Info
WEB Reference, May, 2006 (www.coopscanada.coop) - The Co-operative Secretariat has published an information kit called Forming Our Co-operative which is online at: www.agr.ca/policy/coop/kitcoop/index.html. A co-operative may be formed in accordance with: a provincial co-operative statute setting out its corporate form and model of operation or the Canada Cooperatives Act when the co-operative has a place of business in at least two provinces. An information kit on federally incorporating a co-operative is on Industry Canada's Strategis web site at strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/corpdir/engdoc/9.html. In 2003, the Canadian Co-operative Association and le Conseil Canadien de la Coopération, with their provincial, sectoral and governmental partners, launched CoopZone, Canada's national co-operative development program. CoopZone provides communications links between co-operative development organizations and consultants, information and support for individuals and groups growing co-operatives, and works to communicate the co-operative model to a broader audience. You can also access CoopZone through a toll-free number at 1-888-891-COOP (2667).
Starting a Co-op Links and Info
WEB Reference, May, 2006 (www.coopscanada.coop) - The Co-operative Secretariat has published an information kit called Forming Our Co-operative which is online at: www.agr.ca/policy/coop/kitcoop/index.html. A co-operative may be formed in accordance with: a provincial co-operative statute setting out its corporate form and model of operation or the Canada Cooperatives Act when the co-operative has a place of business in at least two provinces. An information kit on federally incorporating a co-operative is on Industry Canada's Strategis web site at strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/corpdir/engdoc/9.html. In 2003, the Canadian Co-operative Association and le Conseil Canadien de la Coopération, with their provincial, sectoral and governmental partners, launched CoopZone, Canada's national co-operative development program. CoopZone provides communications links between co-operative development organizations and consultants, information and support for individuals and groups growing co-operatives, and works to communicate the co-operative model to a broader audience. You can also access CoopZone through a toll-free number at 1-888-891-COOP (2667).
Empowerment for Social Change / Energy
Community Power Guidebook now available
ONTARIO, June 20, 2006 (OSEA) – The Community Power Guidebook covers the key steps of a community power project, from conception to commissioning, using detailed timelines, case studies, along with linked on-line resources and planning aids. The Guidebook will help communities take control of their energy future, with community renewable power projects generating not only electricity, but also economic benefits while fuelling the local job market. Does your community want to own its own wind turbines? Participate in the rapid growth of renewable energy? Achieve democratic and local control of this promising new sector? Are your constituents or associate members interested in Community Power? The Guidebook will aid community groups looking to build their own electricity generation, acting as a key resource for farmers and landowner groups, municipalities, universities, schools and hospitals interested in the community power process, as well as local renewable energy businesses looking to build new markets. For more information, including a table of contents and an online order form, see http://www.ontario-sea.org/guidebookintro.html.
Community Power Guidebook now available
ONTARIO, June 20, 2006 (OSEA) – The Community Power Guidebook covers the key steps of a community power project, from conception to commissioning, using detailed timelines, case studies, along with linked on-line resources and planning aids. The Guidebook will help communities take control of their energy future, with community renewable power projects generating not only electricity, but also economic benefits while fuelling the local job market. Does your community want to own its own wind turbines? Participate in the rapid growth of renewable energy? Achieve democratic and local control of this promising new sector? Are your constituents or associate members interested in Community Power? The Guidebook will aid community groups looking to build their own electricity generation, acting as a key resource for farmers and landowner groups, municipalities, universities, schools and hospitals interested in the community power process, as well as local renewable energy businesses looking to build new markets. For more information, including a table of contents and an online order form, see http://www.ontario-sea.org/guidebookintro.html.
EcoDesign / Green Buildings
Plants, grass on the rooftop? No longer an oddity.
CHICAGO, USA, July 10, 2006 (The Christian Science Monitor, Amanda Paulson) – In the center of downtown Chicago lies an oasis of green. Monarch butterflies flit past little bluestem. Bees fly from prairie clover to purple coneflowers. A small hawthorn tree rises from a mound. The expanse of native plants and grasses isn't a park, but the top of City Hall, the premier green roof in a city that is making green building a civic cornerstone. Six years ago, when Mayor Richard Daley had the roof installed, it was an oddity. Today, more than 200 green roofs in the city have been constructed or are under way, covering some 2-1/2 million square feet of tar with plants - by far the most of any American city.
Now other cities, hoping to cool and clean their air and help with storm drainage, are beginning to emulate Chicago, and the city is taking key steps to encourage - and in some cases require - private developers to follow City Hall's example.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0710/p02s02-ussc.html
Editor’s Note: for more information on Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, visit http://www.greenroofs.org, - Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, North America Inc. (GRHC) the trade association for the green roof infrastructure industry, develops and delivers green roof training as part of its Green Roof Accreditation Program. To date two courses have been developed towards this Accreditation Program with several more courses anticipated over the next two years.
Plants, grass on the rooftop? No longer an oddity.
CHICAGO, USA, July 10, 2006 (The Christian Science Monitor, Amanda Paulson) – In the center of downtown Chicago lies an oasis of green. Monarch butterflies flit past little bluestem. Bees fly from prairie clover to purple coneflowers. A small hawthorn tree rises from a mound. The expanse of native plants and grasses isn't a park, but the top of City Hall, the premier green roof in a city that is making green building a civic cornerstone. Six years ago, when Mayor Richard Daley had the roof installed, it was an oddity. Today, more than 200 green roofs in the city have been constructed or are under way, covering some 2-1/2 million square feet of tar with plants - by far the most of any American city.
Now other cities, hoping to cool and clean their air and help with storm drainage, are beginning to emulate Chicago, and the city is taking key steps to encourage - and in some cases require - private developers to follow City Hall's example.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0710/p02s02-ussc.html
Editor’s Note: for more information on Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, visit http://www.greenroofs.org, - Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, North America Inc. (GRHC) the trade association for the green roof infrastructure industry, develops and delivers green roof training as part of its Green Roof Accreditation Program. To date two courses have been developed towards this Accreditation Program with several more courses anticipated over the next two years.
